Patience wearing thin with bad boy Jose, while Sancho's BVB return not all rosy

Roma will face AC Milan at the San Siro on Sunday without Jose Mourinho in his technical area — he serves a suspension after picking up his fourth red card of the season last week against Atalanta.

It’s hard to say just how well the ‘Bad Boy’ shtick and the ‘world is against us’ narrative are holding out for him in Italy.

All indications are that it no longer washes with the American owners, the Friedkin Group, who have yet to offer Mourinho a contract extension beyond the end of this season.

The Ultras have until now stayed loyal. There was a ‘With Mourinho all the way to hell,’ banner displayed at the training ground a few weeks back.

But even they are beginning to wonder if the Emperor may actually not have any clothes on — it stings that they have lost four of their last six games against neighbours Lazio, failing to score in the last four.

The latest defeat came in midweek when they were beaten in their Italian Cup quarter-final by Maurizio Sarri’s team.

It was the worst Rome derby since the previous one, with Mourinho’s team not managing a shot on target until eight minutes from time.

He was right when he said his team lost to a ‘modern penalty’ after the VAR-awarded spot-kick led to the winner. But with no domestic cup consolation, Feyenoord waiting in the Europa League, and the possibility of defeat on Sunday moving them 13 points behind third-placed Milan, the horizon looks bleak.

Of his red card last weekend Atalanta coach Gian Piero Gasperini said: ‘He gets sent off every third week. It’s impossible to referee this type of game because of the conditions that are created.’

Mourinho and his coaching staff have been sent off a total of 28 times since he took over and the constant encroachment, complaining and goading